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Ken Vandermark: Vandermark 5, Free Fall, Sonore & Territory Band
by Clifford Allen
Reedman, composer and bandleader Ken Vandermark is an artist not only of diverse talents--he's a tireless organizer and fulcrum of numerous scenes both in his adopted hometown of Chicago as well as western Europe--but also a diversifier of his talents. In the past decade and a half, his arsenal of saxophones and clarinets and his compositional ...
Scott Fields: Bitter Love Songs
by Clifford Allen
The Freetet is ostensibly Cologne-based guitarist Scott Fields' “traditional blowing vehicle," and Bitter Love Songs is his first in the guitar-bass-drums format since Mamet (Delmark, 2001), with bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Michael Zerang. On Bitter Love Songs, he's joined by German bassist Sebastian Gramss and Portuguese drummer Joao Lobo. What makes this date a semi- ...
Joe McPhee: A Legend In Heavy Company
by Clifford Allen
Forty-one years after beginning his recording career on the day after John Coltrane's funeral in sessions led by trombonist Clifford Thornton (Freedom & Unity, Third World, 1967), saxophonist and trumpeter Joe McPhee is indeed the yeoman legend of the modern jazz-world. For many years a factory worker and sometime professor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New ...
Bob James and Paul Bley: Early Free Piano Trios on ESP-Disk
by Clifford Allen
Though ESP-Disk is mostly thought of as a label that proffers free music as a saxophonist-led revolution-- with numerous discs by figures like Albert Ayler, Frank Wright, Marion Brown and Giuseppi Logan--the piano's place in their early catalog is certainly notable. Among the early releases are a solo date from Ran Blake, trio and ...
Impressions of Eric Dolphy
by Clifford Allen
Note: The title refers to a composition by Prince Lasha, recorded on his 1966 UK CBS album Insight. The history of jazz is a recorded history, one that exists on commercially-issued albums (many of which, thankfully, are in print or have been reissued) as well as a vast amount of concert recordings passed ...
New York Art Quartet: New York Art Quartet
by Clifford Allen
Alto saxophonist John Tchicai co-formed the New York Art Quartet in 1964 out of the ashes of the New York Contemporary Five. Enlisting trombonist Roswell Rudd (who arranged some of the latter group's book), the NYAQ was initially to include the Five's rhythm team of bassist Don Moore and drummer J.C. Moses. However, once drummer Milford ...
Reel Recordings: Progressive Leanings with an Archivist's Care
by Clifford Allen
Reel Recordings crept into the reissue market in 2007, somewhat under the cloak of obscurity, but word is spreading that their CD issues of unearthed archival recordings and rare album reissues are not only audiophile gems for the digital age, but some of the most honest and beautiful-sounding CDs on the market. Unlike some audiophile specialty ...
Barry Altschul: Another Time, Another Place
by Clifford Allen
Born in the Bronx on January 6, 1943, drummer Barry Altschul was quickly ensconced in the hard bop scene of the late 1950s, but it was a gig with pianist Paul Bley's trio that put him among the ranks in New York's burgeoning free-jazz scene of the next decade, one which resulted in tours of Europe ...
Globe Unity Orchestra: Globe Unity - 40 Years
by Clifford Allen
Globe Unity Orchestra Globe Unity - 40 Years Intakt 2007 “The cosmic eye at the central point and on the periphery of the sphere can see all the structures from every angle at the same time. From the divine indifference of the sphere emerge the solos with all ...
Sun Ra in the '70s: Disco and Some Blues
by Clifford Allen
Sun Ra Disco 3000: The Complete Milan Concert Art Yard 2007 Sun Ra Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue Atavistic 2008 The free innovations of ...
